Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn Credentials Mark Steyn attended the King Edward’s School in Birmingham, U.K., leaving in 1978, at the age of 18. Steyn does not appear to have a college education or any background in climate science. 2“Top American Conservative Mark Steyn Didn’t Go to College,” Edbasic, July 9, 2012. Archived […]

Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey Credentials B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Economics, University of Virginia, 1976. Background Ronald Bailey is a science correspondent at Reason Magazine, writing a weekly science and technology column. He is also a “media fellow” and […]

Rupert Darwall

Rupert Darwall Credentials Background Rupert Darwall is a Consulting Director with the White House Writers Group, where he specializes in the intersection of public policy and finance. Darwall is also listed as a “team member” by the CO2 Coalition, an organization that claims […]

John Hinderaker

John Hinderaker Credentials Background John Hinderaker is “a lawyer in Minneapolis who occasionally writes stuff on the web” for Powerlineblog.com, according to his Twitter profile biography. Hinderaker’s litigation practice spans the United States and for twenty years he has written on public policy issues “including income inequality, income taxes, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, welfare reform, […]

Norman Rogers

Norman Rogers Credentials Background Norman (Norm) Rogers is a Policy Advisor at the Heartland Institute. Rogers received a B.A. in Physics from the University of California at Berkley and a M.S. in Physics from the University of Hawaii. Following his education, he “held a variety of engineering and computer programming jobs with IBM, Hewlett Packard […]

Russell Cook

Russell Cook Credentials Background Russell Cook is a contributing editor for The Heartland Institute‘s Environment & Climate News. Russell Cook is “neither a scientist nor a trained journalist,” but rather, “a common citizen having reasonably adequate enough education and an inquisitive enough mind to observe and question contradictory stories in the media about global warming.”1Russell […]

Bob Armstrong

Bob Armstrong Credentials Background Robert (Bob) E. Armstrong is a self-described “bleeding heart libertarian,” the owner of CoSy.com, a computer programming company, and the previous drug affairs director of the Manhattan Libertarian Party. According to his C.V. and the Heartland Institute, he spent the 1970s […]

Copenhagen Consensus Center

Copenhagen Consensus Center Background The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think tank registered in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC. The CCC says its role is to publicize “the best ways for governments and philanthropists to spend aid and development money.” High-profile Danish economist and author Bjørn Lomborg is the Copenhagen Consensus Center’s president, founder and […]

Andrew Bolt

Andrew Bolt Credentials Background Andrew Bolt is a high-profile conservative Australian columnist, commentator and broadcaster. Bolt is an opinion writer at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Herald Sun in Melbourne, with his columns often syndicated across the rest of the News Corporation Australia network of metropolitan tabloid newspapers online and in print.1“Andrew Bolt,” Saxton speaker’s bureau. Archived […]

Nick Minchin

Nick Minchin Credentials BEc (Economics), Australian National University  LLB (Law), Australian National University  Source: Parliamentary Biography. Background Nick Minchin is a former Australian government finance minister and Senator who in February 2014 was appointed to the influential diplomatic role of Australia’s Consul-General in New York. Minchin has long been considered a power broker in Australia’s conservative Liberal Party. Minchin served […]